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1. Introduction / Gareth Austin and Kaoru Sugihara -- 2. Labour-intensive industrialization in global history : an interpretation of East Asian experiences / Kaoru Sugihara -- 3. The industrious revolutions in East and West / Jan de Vries -- 4. Proto-industrialization and labour-intensive...
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"During the late eighteenth century, innovations in Europe triggered the Industrial Revolution and the sustained … argues that a culture of growth specific to early modern Europe and the European Enlightenment laid the foundations for the … transformations. Mokyr looks at the period 1500–1700 to show that a politically fragmented Europe fostered a competitive “market for …
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David Ricardo initially believed machinery would help workers but revised his opinion, likely based on the impact of automation in the textile industry. Despite cotton textiles becoming one of the largest sectors in the British economy, real wages for cotton weavers did not rise for decades. As...
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Urbanization, Sanitation, and Mortality in the Progressive Era, 1899-1929 -- The Continuing Puzzle of Hypertension among African Americans: Developmental Origins and the Mid-century Socioeconomic Transformation -- Health and Safety vs. Freedom of Contract: The Tortured Path of Wage and Hours...
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Centers -- Chapter 5:- Economics in the Rest of Europe -- Chapter 6:- Economics in the United States: New York, Harvard …, Chicago and Princeton -- Chapter 7:- Great Controversies -- Chapter 8:- Between the Two World Wars: The Years of High Theory? …. Volume II addresses economic theory in the period between the two world wars in which the economic theory went through a …
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